Oscar-nominated director David Fincher and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn will
produce an American version of Channel 4's cult conspiracy thriller

Where is Jessica Hyde? Possibly in America, where Dennis Kelly's Utopiais heading. Stateside network HBO, which has created the likes of The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire and The Wire, has commissioned an adaptation of the Channel 4 thriller.

David Fincher, the Oscar-nominated director behind Fight Club and The Social Network, will be directing and executive producing the adaptation. The screenplay will be written by Gillian Flynn, author of bestselling novel Gone Girl, the film version of which Fincher is also directing.

Fincher's involvement makes this an exciting development TV on both sides of the Atlantic. Utopia will be the second British drama Fincher will have adapted after the director revamped the Nineties mini-series House of Cards, set in Thatcher's London, for Netflix. The on-demand service's first original drama, Fincher's House of Cards welcomed Kevin Spacey into the main role as a Washington-based congressman and has won three Emmy awards and one Golden Globe. With the weight of Hollywood behind him, Fincher could bring a strong cast to HBO's Utopia.

Utopia ran on Channel 4 in early 2013 and revolved around a prescient and extremely rare comic book and the hardcore fans who were trying to unravels its implications for a growing population. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO's version looks set to follow a similar path.